Background and Credentials
Expertise
Contact
Publications
Curriculum Vitae

Dr Meg Kaplan's private practice is located on the Upper East Side. For more information please contact msk2@columbia.edu or 212-517-6624.

Background and Credentials

Meg S. Kaplan, Ph.D. Is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. She has been Director of the Sexual Behavior Clinic at New York State Psychiatric Institute since 1990.

She is a clinical psychologist and sexologist who has specialized in treating sexual disorders since 1985. She has also conducted research since 1985. Dr. Kaplan belongs to several major sex research organizations and has over 50 publications. She lectures frequently on various topics in human sexuality to professionals as well as the public. She has taught and supervised medical students, residents, and fellows at Columbia since 1985.

Dr. Kaplan is a board member of the New York State Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers and former board member of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers. She is also a member of the Special Classification Review Board at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Avenel, New Jersey.

Areas of Expertise

Dr. Kaplan's Professional Interest and Expertise Center on the Following:

• Compulsive Sexual Behavior and Paraphilias:
  Specializing in the cognitive-behavioral treatment of adults and adolescents with paraphilias and/or atypical sexual interests and behaviors, such as compulsive usage of the Internet.
  
  
• Sex Therapy
  Working with individuals and/or couples with problems of sexual dysfunction, including sexual desire disorders, compulsive sexual behavior, and other sexual disorders.
  
  
• Human Sexuality Education:
  Dr. Kaplan is active in education professionals in how to teach sexual education and HIV prevention to adolescents, adults and those with mental illnesses.
  
  

Contact Dr Meg Kaplan

PRIVATE PRACTICE:

Location: Upper East Side
Phone: 212-517-6624
Email: msk2@columbia.edu

Mailing Address:

New York State Psychiatric Institute &
Columbia University Department of Psychiatry
Meg S. Kaplan, Ph.D.
Director
The Sexual Behavior Clinic
New York State Psychiatric Institute
1051 Riverside Drive, Unit #45
New York, New York 10032-2695

Dr. Meg Kaplan's Publications

2012

Krueger RB, Kaplan MS: Paraphilic Diagnoses in DSM-5: Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci, Volume 49, No. 4, 2012, 248-254.  Download

Kaplan MS, Krueger RB: Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of the Paraphilias: Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci, Volume 49, No. 4, 2012, 291-296.   Download

2010

Kaplan MS, Krueger RB: Diagnosis, Assessment, and Treatment of Hypersexuality: Annual Review of Sex Research, Journal of Sex Research, Vol 47, Issue 2-3; 2010; 181-198.  Download

2009

Krueger RB, Kaplan, M, First, M: Sexual and other axis I diagnoses of 60 males arrested for crimes against children involving the Internet, CNS Spectrums, Volume 14, No. 11, 2009; 623-631.  Download

Krueger RB, Wexler R, Kaplan M, Saleh F. (2009) Orchiectomy. In Saleh, FM, Bradford, Grudzinsakas, AJ, Bradford JM, Brodsky DJ. Sex Offenders. Oxford University Press, New York, New York. pp. 171-188.  Download

2006

Krueger, RB, Kaplan, MS: Chemical Castration. Treatment for Pedophilia. DSM-IV-TR Casebook, Volume 2. Edited by Robert L. Spitzer M.D., Michael B. First M.D., Janet B.W. Williams, D.S.W, Miriam Gibbon, M.S.W., American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. Washington, D.C., 2006, ISBN 1-58562-220-6, pp. 309-334.   Download

2005

Krueger, RB, Kaplan, MS: A Review of: "Clinical Management of Sex Addiction" edited by Patrick J. Carnes and Kenneth M. Adams. New York: Brunner-Routledge, 2002. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy. October-December
2005, 31, No. 5: 448-450.  Download

2003

Kaplan, MS, Krueger, RB: Chapter 45: Adolescent Sexual Offenders. In Rosner, R. Ed. Principles and Practice of Forensic Psychiatry. Oxford University Press, New York, New York, 2003. pp 455-462   Download

2002

Krueger, RB, Kaplan, MS: Behavioral and psychopharmacological treatment of the paraphilic and hypersexual disorders. Journal of Psychiatric Practice: January 2002, 8: 21-32.(10131)  Download

Krueger, RB, Kaplan, MS: Treatment resources for the paraphilic and hypersexual disorders. Journal of Psychiatric Practice: January 2002, 8: 59-60.(10137)  Download

Krueger, Kaplan-A Favorable view of the DSM-IV diagnosis of pedophilia and empathy for the pedophile; Archives of Sexual Behavior, 486-488. (11099)  Download
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2001

Krueger, RB, Kaplan, MS: Depo-leuprolide acetate for the treatment of the paraphilias: A report of 12 cases. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2001, 30: 409-422.(09335)   Download

Krueger, RB, Kaplan, MS: The paraphilic and hypersexual disorders: An Overview. Journal of Psychiatric Practice; November 2001, 7: 391-403.(09990)   Download

2000

Krueger, RB, Kaplan, MS: The non-violent serial offender: Exhibitionism, frotteurism, and telephone scatologia. In L.B. Schlesinger (Ed.) Serial Offenders: Current Thought, Recent Findings, Unusual Syndromes. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fl. 2000, pp. 103-118.(08023)  Download

Krueger, RB, Kaplan, MS: Disorders of Sexual Impulse Control in Neuropsychiatric Conditions. In T. W. McAllister, Guest Ed. Seminars in Clinical Neuropsychiatry: Pharmacological of Neuropsychiatric Syndromes. Vol. 5, No. 4, 2000, pp. 266-274.(08221)  Download

Krueger, RB, Kaplan, MS: Evaluation and Treatment of Sexual Disorders: Frottage In VandeCreek, L. (Ed.) Innovations in Clinical Practice: A Source Book. Vol. 18, 2000. Professional Resource Press. Sarasota, Fl. pp. 185-198.(90931)   Download

1997

Krueger, RB, Kaplan, M: Frotteurism: Assessment and treatment. In D. R. Laws and W. O'Donohue (Eds.). Sexual Deviance. Theory, Assessment, and Treatment. Guilford Press, New York: 1997, pp. 131-151.(00928)  Download

Kaplan, M, Krueger, RB: Voyeurism: Psychopathology and Theory. In D. R. Laws and W. O'Donohue (Eds.).Sexual Deviance. Theory, Assessment, and Treatment. Guilford Press, New York: 1997, pp. 297-310.(00929)   Download

Cournos F, Herman R, Kaplan M, McKinnon K: AIDS prevention for people with severe mental illness. Journal of Practical Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, 1997; 3(5):285-293 Download

1995

Kobayashi J, Sales BD, Becker JV, Figueredo AJ, Kaplan M: Perceived deviance, parent-child bonding, child abuse, and child sexual aggression.  Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment. 1995; 7(1):25-45 Download

Kaplan M, Green A: Eleven incarcerated female sexual offenders:A comparison of sexual histories with non-offenders. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment. 1995; 7(4):287-301 Download

Hunter J, Becker J, Goodwin DW, Kaplan M: The adolescent
sexual interest cardsort, test-retest reliability and concurrent  validity in relation to phallometric assessment.  Archives of Sexual Behavior. 1995;24(5):555-563 Download

Kaemingk K, Koselka M, Becker J, Kaplan M: Age and
adolescent sexual offender arousal. Sexual Abuse:  A Journal of Research and Treatment. 1995; 7(4):249-259 Download

Kaplan, MS: HIV/AIDS and People with Serious Mental Illness. Speaker at full-dayConferences in conjunction with Columbia University Departmentof Continuing Medical Education, New York, N.Y., June 1993, Albany, N.Y., October, 1993, March, 1995. Download

1993

Becker JV, Kaplan MS. (1993)  Cognitive behavioral treatment of the Juvenile sex offender.  H.E. Barbaree, W.L. Marshall, &  D.R. Laws, (eds.), The Juvenile Sexual Offender.  Guilford Press, New York. Download

1992

Becker JV, Kaplan MS. (1992)  Research on adolescent sex  offenders.  In A. Burgess, (ed.), Child trauma I: Issues and Research. pp, 383-405. Garland Publishing, Inc., New York. Download

Becker JV, Hunter JA, Goodwin D, Kaplan MS, Martinez D: Test-retest reliability of audio-taped phallometric stimuli with adolescent sex offenders.  Annals of Sex Research. 1992; 5:45-51 Download

Becker JV, Stein RM, Kaplan MS, Cunningham-Rathner J: Erectile response characteristics of adolescent sex offenders: A preliminary study.  Annals of Sex          Research. 1992;  5(1):81-86 Download

1991

Hunter JA, Becker JV, Kaplan MS, Goodwin DW:  The
reliability and discriminitive utility of the adolescent cognitions scale for juvenile offenders  Annals of Sex Research. 1991; 4:281-286 Download

1990

Kaplan MS, Abel GG, Rathner J, Mittleman M: The impact of parolee's perceptions of confidentiality on self-reported sex crimes. Annals of Sex Research. 1990; 3 (3):293-305 Download

1989

Becker JV, Kaplan MS. (1989)  The Assessment of adolescent sexual offenders.  In R. Prinz, (ed.), Advances in Behavioral Assessment of Children and Families, 4, 97-118.  Conn: JAI Press Inc. Download

1988

Kavoussi R, Kaplan MS, Becker JV:  Psychiatric diagnoses in juvenile sex offenders.  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 1988; 27:241-243 Download